They're Here!

So I don't look too great in this picture (after 5 hours of flying and driving) but the girls have finally arrived! This is a picture of them napping. It was great to to end the process with the girls but it really is only the beginning. We pray that these girls will grow closer to Christ in their journey!

Will post on the vacation later...

Tired,
~SEan

Coming Home?

So prayers were answered Wednesday and the process for bringing the girls to PA is coming to an end. Jen has a meeting on either Tuesday or Wednesday to get the girls visas so they can fly back... Super exciting! Please pray that the meeting happens soon and that it goes well! Hopefully I can post some pictures of Megan and I with the girls next week when we get back from vacation.

On that note, Megan and I leave Monday for vacation. Sunday is our anniversary and we are excited to head down to West Palm Beach for the week to celebrate!

I might post some pictures of us while we are down there, we'll see.

Til then,
Sean

Extended Family...

So my MIL (mother-in-law) is in Haiti right now. It kinda was a last minute deal. See Megan's family is trying to adopt again. I have a BIL and SIL both from China, and legally I have two SILs in Haiti. The problem is, even though the twin girls (Adelina and Sophia, seen left w/ Jen) are legally "Geruntho's" there is a paper sitting on a desk in Haiti that needs signed. Literally.

So Jen went down to Haiti with two other adoptive Moms to go see the children they are adopting. We are so excited to have the girls up in PA. We have been for about 2 years. We actually were told they would be here by Megan and my wedding (BTW- our first anniversary is this Sunday). Then we thought they would be here for Christmas. Then there was a stretch in May that we thought that Jen and Jim would fly down and pick the girls up any day.

But it obviously never happened. So today Jen and the other Moms are going to the office where the paper jam is and ask that they would be allowed to take the girls home. Pray for this resolution! Please! If it does not happen soon it could be another year. I am tired of getting excited from progress then endless set backs, I cannot even begin to understand how Jen and Jim feel.

Hopefully I can post a picture of the girls in the US soon!

-God, we are so excited that Jim and Jen have followed your call to adopt again. To help make life right for Adelina and Sophia. We ask that you would finish the adoption process and that the girls would come home, soon. Help everyone involved to have the patience when needed. But we ultimately ask that you would put an end to the paperwork and allow Jen to bring the girls home. God, you are more than capable of this and we look forward to when these girls will learn to live their lives seeking to follow you. Amen.

Friday...Lastday

Session 4 and 5 are today. Going to hear Donald Miller and Erwin McManus.
Starting right now. Here is a pic.

What's right with your world...

The theme for this year's arts conference is "Hallelujah, what's right with the world." The first speaker on Wednesday morning was Dewitt Jones, you have probably seen some of his photography before. He has worked with National Geographic for twenty years and won numerous awards for his work. Some of the pictures he has taken are able to conjure up a wide range of emotions from the viewer; it is amazing what his eye can see from the ordinary.

His main point that he shared was how do we fall in love with the world? When we are in love with someone or something we have a longing, a passion to be with him, her or it. I love to be working with technology; basically any free moment I have will probably be centered around doing something with circuits, wire and electricity. How am I able to turn my love for technology and electronics into good? How can I better the world with my passion? Also, with that question, if we are doing something, or work somewhere that we don't like, what emotion will we share with others, most likely it will be one of frustration or regret.

To fall in love with the world we need to be doing what God wired us to do. The world would not be right if my wife, Megan, did not paint and make things beautiful. That is one of her ways of making things right. When we are in a place where we are able to do what we love we are able to walk around with a "Full glass." It is when we wake up with a positive attitude about the world that the ordinary becomes the extra-ordinary.

So my question is what is it that you are doing to make thing right in the world? Are you in a position that you are making things good again? Have you found that thing that God made you to do and can see the world with new eyes.

I can't imagine being any other place than LCBC right now. It is what God ordained for Megan and myself. I admit that I struggle seeing the extra-ordinary in my day regularly. But, I am so glad that I am in a place where my avocation is also my vocation.

He are few snap shots from the conference so far: (I forgot our camera so I had to spin my laptop aroudn and use the iSight.)


(Main stage)


(The 7500 seat auditorium)


(The IMAG suite: Amazing)

New Beginnings

I am sitting in the basement of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Il. Every year they put on their arts conference in hopes to inspire and assist people that lead production ministry. Yesterday we heard from three speakers (more to come in a later blog) that spoke about "Celebrating what is right in the world" "The audacity of hope" and "they like Jesus, but not the church."

My session on copyright basics is starting now...
Be back later today...

Sean